Burkitt Lymphoma of Thyroid Gland in an Adolescent

Burkitt Lymphoma is a highly aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that in nonendemic areas has abdominal primary sites. We report a very rare case of Burkitt lymphoma of the thyroid gland presenting as a rapidly growing thyroid swelling in a 14-year-old white Caucasian British male with no...

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Autores principales: Cooper, K., Gangadharan, A., Arora, R. S., Shukla, R., Pizer, B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24868478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/187467
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author Cooper, K.
Gangadharan, A.
Arora, R. S.
Shukla, R.
Pizer, B.
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description Burkitt Lymphoma is a highly aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that in nonendemic areas has abdominal primary sites. We report a very rare case of Burkitt lymphoma of the thyroid gland presenting as a rapidly growing thyroid swelling in a 14-year-old white Caucasian British male with no preexisting thyroid or medical problems. The diagnosis was confirmed by an open wedge biopsy following a fine needle aspiration. The patient was treated according to the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group guidelines for BL—Group B protocol and currently is in remission.
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spelling pubmed-40203682014-05-27 Burkitt Lymphoma of Thyroid Gland in an Adolescent Cooper, K. Gangadharan, A. Arora, R. S. Shukla, R. Pizer, B. Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Burkitt Lymphoma is a highly aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that in nonendemic areas has abdominal primary sites. We report a very rare case of Burkitt lymphoma of the thyroid gland presenting as a rapidly growing thyroid swelling in a 14-year-old white Caucasian British male with no preexisting thyroid or medical problems. The diagnosis was confirmed by an open wedge biopsy following a fine needle aspiration. The patient was treated according to the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group guidelines for BL—Group B protocol and currently is in remission. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4020368/ /pubmed/24868478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/187467 Text en Copyright © 2014 K. Cooper et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Burkitt Lymphoma of Thyroid Gland in an Adolescent
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